Việt Nam News

Residents in central Quảng Trị Province’s Triệu An Commune have used steel net to block trucks carrying seafood to a local seafood processing company. The action is a protest against pollution and horrible smells coming from the company’s premises, the online Dân trí newspaper.

As many as 19 of the 43 industrial clusters in capital city of Hà Nội do not have waste water treatment plants, an inspection by the municipal People’s Council has found.

Authorities have confirmed a serious case of deforestation has occurred in this northern mountain province, resulting in the destruction of about 80 percent of the special forest areas in Pá Khoang Commune.

In early August, locals in a mountainous area of the south-central province of Bình Định called rangers to report something odd: a large group of strangers cutting down trees in a nearby natural forest.

Experts shared the methodology and preliminary calculation of the national potential of ground-mounted solar photovoltaic in Việt Nam at a workshop held on Thursday in Hà Nội.

More efforts are needed to strengthen and support collaboration among ASEAN countries and China to combat the increasing wildlife smuggling and poaching of endangered wildlife, the 4th Regional Dialogue on Combating Trafficking of Wild Fauna and Flora heard in Bangkok on Wednesday.

The administration of the central city of Đà Nẵng has failed to comply with the Prime Minister’s request for detailed plans to resolve the clash between the need to preserve the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve and the accelerated tourism development at the site, former and current officials say.

The chairman of the People’s Committee of Hà Nội, Nguyễn Đức Chung, has asked the department of construction to enhance supervision of waste collection units, warning that officials failing to do so would be suspended.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the People’s Committee of Bình Định and other authorised agencies to promptly investigate media reports of  deforestation in the central province and report back to him before October 30.

The central province of Bình Thuận is preparing to receive sludge from the Vĩnh Tân Thermal Power Centre to reclaim land that has seen serious erosion.

Solid waste produced by the central province of Quảng Nam has risen in recent years but the province lacks high capacity waste treatment systems, according to the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DoNRE).

 The central highland city of Đà Lạt in Lâm Đồng Province will be Việt Nam’s representative to receive the fourth ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable City at the fifteenth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment.

Every commune or ward in HCM City will be allocated VNĐ500 million (US$21,929) this year towards addressing a funding shortage for sorting waste before it is treated.

Wastewater disposed by factories in Bình Dương Province’s industrial zones is the main cause of Ba Bò Canal pollution, according to a new report by the HCMC People’s Committee. 

At the peak of the ‘mining fever’, Quỳ Hợp District in the central province Nghệ An had hundreds of sites operational. Now, due to high production costs and consumption difficulties, many mining companies have shut down—leaving behind tremendous environmental damage.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will chair the setting up an ocean monitoring system, using capital from the Taiwanese Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Steel Plant’s compensation for its toxic spill’s impacts.

After five years of operation, the Bưng Riềng landfill in Xuyên Mộc District has started leaking wastewater and spreading foul smells in the southern province.

The National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecast has reported that in the past six hours, tropical storm Mawar has remained almost unchanged.